Kant's Theory of Natural Science

1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-2750-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 159, 367 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 695 g

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Plaass's treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant's . Plaass argues that the represents an integral step in Kant's development between the two editions of the . The repeats the `Copernican turn', using the conditions of subjectivity to derive the metaphysical determinations of `matter' as the object of natural science with the new method called `metaphysical construction', which simultaneously grounds the mathematizability of physics. The translators provide background and analysis of Plaass's work, extend it to include the body of the and offer a variation on the analysis of the relationship between mathematics and metaphysics in the . They discuss its relevance for contemporary paradigm-dependency approaches to the philosophy of science and for philosophical hermeneutics. The book will be of interest to Kant specialists as well as to students of the philosophy of science in general.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plaass, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Miller, A. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translators’ Introduction and Commentary.- Table of Contents to Introduction and Commentary.- Kant’s Theory Of Natural Science According To P. Plaass: An Introductory Analytic Essay by C. F. von Weizsäcker (1965).- Kant’s Theory of Natural Science — Peter Plaass.- Preface — C. F. von Weizsäcker.- Foreword — P. Plaass.- 0. Introduction.- 1. The Object of Natural Science: Nature.- 2. Doctrine and Science Proper.- 3. The Pure Part of Natural Science.- 4. The Empirical Concept of Matter.- 5. Pure Natural Science as Pure Doctrine of Motion.- 6. The Function of the Pure Part.- Selected Bibliography Since Plaass.